Definition of "life-tenant" [life-tenant]

• The owner of a life-estate; one who holds lands, etc., for the term of his own or another's life. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Men come and bask in the halo of consols and acres that beams round about him: the reverence is transferred with the estate; of which, with all its advantages, pleasures, respect, and good-will, he in turn becomes the life-tenant."
• "It is still there -- a life-tenant -- for its lease cannot be broken till memory dies."
• "Mary Leigh, who had been for twenty years life-tenant of the"